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- From: nml@csa.bu.edu (Newton Loui)
- Newsgroups: alt.supermodels
- Subject: Re: Sexual harassment on the net??
- Message-ID: <NML.92Nov17203930@csa.bu.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 01:39:30 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.162859.15872@neb> <c1=I03z3bbsI00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Sender: news@bu.edu
- Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department
- Lines: 49
- In-reply-to: jsp@uts.amdahl.com's message of 17 Nov 92 18:43:30 GMT
-
- In article <c1=I03z3bbsI00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:
-
- jim@neb (Jim Hood) writes:
-
- }>From LXP111@psuvm.psu.edu Mon Nov 16 12:57:25 1992
- }>Hey Jen, I have the same problem wit da women on this net..heh heh heh. Hey
- }>since were both netsexobjects...will you do me baby fuck me.....just kidding ag
- }>ain.
- }You know... Joke or not, legally that could be considered sexual harassment.
- [stuff deleted about possible repercussions]
-
- And what a sad and sorry comment that is on the completely irrational
- and hysterical atmosphere that has come to surround "sexual harrassment".
-
- Not to even mention how this undercuts the seriousness of true sexual
- harrassment. Jokingly saying "fuck me" is in the exact same category
- as fondling or other unwanted physical contact. How many people think
- that this will make people take the former more seriously? How many
- think that it will make people take the latter more lightly?
-
- --James Preston
-
- "Completely irrational and hysterical"? Jennifer had just posted that
- she had received a lot of e-mail harassing her, then
- <LXP111@psuvm.psu.edu> posts that sort of message. If Jennifer
- believes that she is being harassed, then that treatment *is*
- harassment. <LXP111@psuvm.psu.edu> certainly didn't do it to cheer
- her up nor to give her support.
-
- How would you define *false* sexual harassment?
-
- Clarify your former and latter points. This doesn't undercut the
- seriousness of sexual harassment of any form for me. I will also
- *NOT* take lightly "jokingly" sexually harassing anyone.
-
- Why is it that people love to pick on other people, and then when
- confronted by the people defending themselves, cry out "But I was only
- joking"?
-
- nml
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- and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to
- find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by
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- is to have succeeded. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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